Letters, 1873.

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Letters, 1873.

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Letters of naturalist Jean Louis Rodolph Agassiz to C.W. Galloupe and Massachusetts Governor John Henry Clifford. A photograph of Galloupe's yacht the Clochette is included. The correspondence concerns Galloupe's gift of the Clochette to the Anderson School of Natural History for use in scientific research. Agassiz founded the Anderson School shortly before his death in 1873.

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Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873

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Swiss-American zoologist and geologist. Professor of zoology and geology at Harvard University. Louis Agassiz was born in Môtier-en-Vuly, Switzerland. He studied at the universities of Zürich, Erlangen (Ph.D., 1829), Heidelberg, and Munich (M.D., 1830). Agassiz studied medicine briefly but turned to zoology, with a special interest in fishes and fossils, while studying under the French naturalist Cuvier. In 1832 he became professor of natural history at the University of Neuchâtel, Sw...

Clifford, John H. (John Henry), 1809-1876

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Galloupe, C. W., ca.1825-

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Anderson School of Natural History.

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